On 6/21/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Flickr must do something to filter it out. or maybe
just having a
community orientation is enough to discourage it.
Too many tags knocks down your "interestingness" ranking and reduces
your chances of being seen, as does submitting to too many groups.
That and social pressure seems to do the trick.
What bugs me in Flickr is people who are too lazy to tag their
pictures individually and tag a whole uploaded set - sometimes
hundreds of pictures - with every tag that's valid for at least one
image in it. So you'll get a whole set of family photos that are
tagged 'train' because there's a train in one of them. And these
people get really aggressive if you politely ask them not to do that.
I'm not sure what the point is of what they're doing, either. If
they're not tagging accurately, I can't see how it's even useful for
them. It's like they're tagging as a ritual devoid of meaning.
-Matt